The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. – Jerry Saltz
You’re the only one who’s closing your eyes at night. There’s no one else who can do it for you. – James Caan
I won’t be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. – Joe Torre
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. – Bob Beauprez
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I’m stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. – David Bowie
Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us. – Geddy Lee
The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it – so I would never say, ‘I’ll never act again.’ But it’s definitely not my priority. – Evangeline Lilly
In the early 1970s. 1971, ’72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren’t signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. – Dave Van Ronk
Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the ’84 Olympics. – Cuba Gooding, Jr.
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. – Carl Stokes
We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. – Mahmoud Abbas
Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. – Gail Sheehy
I was in Los Angeles prepping my episode of ‘Dollhouse’ when the final ‘Planetary’ hit the stands in October. Yeah, it was surreal. One chapter closing, another opening. – John Cassaday
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or – somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. – Kenneth Grahame
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, ‘infidels’, for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. – Salman Rushdie
Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he’s on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon’s presidency and then on into Gerald Ford. – Roger Morris
When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg. – Toby Keith
